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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Oh, you want to know the origins? Yah, The Beatles. I'll think of more later.
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So I wasn't just imagining it? I was listening to Abbey Road yesterday for the first time in about 12 damn years, and so I got to the second side of the album. That whole deconstructionalist unfinished songs strung together thing from Sun King to Bathroom Window; and then the sequence of Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight with the recall back to You Never Give Me Your Money, providing that whole faux-opera pseudo-concept effect... all seems to echo of the sophisticated pop/rock of the poppy side of prog that was to come in the early 70s, at least what I've heard of it.
Though the Beatles did it out of wild experimentation rather than trying to be arty....... then again, that would be getting into a discussion of intentions, which is pointless. I'm sure the prog bands didn't always take themselves too seriously, either.